Richard Thomas Chase (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore. Chase compiled and...

Richard Chase (folklorist) (1904–1988), American folklorist Richard Chase, poker player in 2006 World Series of Poker results Rick Chase (1957–2002), disc...

version would have a sheriff. In his book The Jack Tales American folklorist Richard Chase collected many popular Appalachian Jack tales as told by descendants...

Devil" in her 1970 book A Book of Devils and Demons.[citation needed] Richard Chase presents a version from the Southern Appalachians, called "Wicked John...

jackalopes sell for about $150. In Man and Beast in American Comic Legend, folklorist Richard Dorson recounts the Douglas variant but also an alternative that will...

Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk...

occurs in the French variant, The Dirty Shepherdess. American folklorist Richard Chase published an American variant he titled Rush Cape, based on a tale...

Worthington; March 3, 1931 – March 30, 1967) was an American folksinger and folklorist who was prominent in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Clayton...

and folktales. In the German tale The Frog's Bridegroom, recorded by folklorist and ethnographer Gustav Jungbauer, the third of three sons of a farmer...

January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music. He was the father...

rhymes in German: "Der Wind, der Wind,/ Das himmlische Kind." According to folklorist Jack Zipes, the tale emerged in the Late Middle Ages Germany (1250–1500)...

type ATU 210, "Cock (Rooster), Hen, Duck, Pin, and Needle on a Journey". Folklorist Antti Aarne proposed an Asian origin for the tale type ATU 130, "Die Tiere...

ruling aliʻi aimoku of the island, which listed 65 people as menehune. Folklorist Katharine Luomala believes that the legends of the Menehune are a post-European...

Celts, and Slavs (motif E501 per Thompson). Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led by a mythological figure escorted by a ghostly or supernatural group...

Conspiracy". Carr's tale of "Hangar 18" was adapted into a 1980 film. Folklorist Toby Smith noted the works' influence on the Roswell incident myth, arguing...

featuring the silhouette of a bullfrog was adopted. According to folklorist Richard Dorson, Windham's adoption of the frog as a symbol was a form of boosterism...

Lantern" in Worcestershire, England, at the end of the 18th century. The folklorist Jabez Allies outlines other derivations of the name, "Hobany's", which...

Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner (July 1, 1872 – October 15, 1967) was an American folklorist, educator, and English professor. Gardner was co-founder with Thelma G...

Gingerbread Man! The character of the runaway food exists in folktales. Folklorist D. L. Ashliman located it across Germany, the British Isles, and Eastern...

eight plausible origins to the story have been mooted by historians and folklorists, including suggestions that "Robin Hood" was a stock alias used by or...

chef, comedian, storyteller Barry Jean Ancelet (born 1951), writer, folklorist, linguist James Lee Burke (born 1936), writer Mary Alice Fontenot (1910-2003)...

parts of Kent. Aware of this decline, in the early twentieth century the folklorist and historian Percy Maylam documented what survived of the tradition and...

Catskinella, in her book Her Stories. In a tale collected by American folklorist Richard Chase with the title Catskins, a poor, orphaned girl works for a couple...

of the profits from the film,: 17:10  and Idrias's sister, author and folklorist Amina Shah, who had done some of the translations for the Nasrudin books...

singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882–1973), folklorist, musician, folk festival founder Mary Lattimore, harpist MJ Lenderman...

have been acquired after the cat legend was established, as American folklorist Jennifer Westwood points out, and the supposed "cat" looked more like...

(Jabberjaw, BraveStarr, Taz-Mania) (b. 1940) March 26 Dan Ben-Amos, 88, folklorist and professor (b. 1934) Keith Colson, 88, college basketball coach and...

between 1963 and 1969, excluding 31 which were selected by John F. Kennedy. Richard Nixon awarded 28 medals between 1969 and 1974. Gerald Ford awarded 28 medals...

buried a Union soldier. This film was inspired by his story as told to folklorist Harry M. Caudill.' Kris Kristofferson as Confederate Preacher Patricia...

1891: 17 : 5  – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century...